GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service GERMAN POLITICS. BERLIN, May 24. Cabinet after Herr Marx had interviewed President Hincleuburg, decided to postpone its resignation till 12th June, on the eve of the Reichstag reassmbling.

BIRD PRESERVATION. ["Tit” Times” Semvice.l (Received this day at 13.25 p.m.) LONDON, AI ay 24. . The “Times” Geneva correspondent Says the International Bird Preservation Conference fins successfully concluded. It protested against the killing of birds solely for their millinery value. It resolved recommending the complete cessation of bird-hunting during mating and rearing periods, and the use of repeating shot guns lor shooting wild fowl from motor boats. It strongly disapproved of commerce in wild birds egg shells and recommended an international convention compelling the cessation of Jill shooting, trapping and other destruction, sale, or exposure for sale in countries of the Southern Hemisphere from Ist - August until the nil tun vi shooting season. SOVIET TREATMENT OF WOMEN. LONDON, May 24. The “Times” Riga correspondent 'says Soltz, a member of the Presidum Central Control Commission, unofficially titled, Soviet Censor of Morale, makes a remarkable appeal to the Soviet Union generally for “ a return to a kniglitlier attitude towards women.” He declared that although the Soviet laws about equality of women and children were worse even than before the revolution hundreds of thousands of Soviet women were clamouring in the courts for maintenance allowances. It is a dying shame, said Soltz, that not merely is professional hooliganism oppressing woman, hut oven some of the most prominent Soviet lenders adopt the most impossible attitude towards their womenfolk.

AN ANTRIM MURDER. Australian Press Assn.—United Service (Received this day at 12.2.5 p.m.) LONDON. May 24. Armed raiders shot dead James MeAuley, a Justice of the Peace, and two sisters at their home Annoy, Antrim.

EMPIRE DAY. LONDON, May 24

Numerous public lunches were the chief manifestations of Empire Day. Sir J. Parr visited big stores in London where there are excellent displays of New Zealand produce l.n connection with Empire shopping week.

PHOSGENE GAS. LONDON. May 24

rp] ]0 “Times” Berlin correspondent ■** reports that experts have decided that the remaining stocks of phosgene he destroyed by caustic soda and ammonia. The Minister of Economic Affairs at to-day Cabinet meeting stated the gas was not intended for military quarters or purposes. A departmental expert had gone to Hamburg to conduct an inquiry into the actual origin of the gas.

ALSACE TRIALS. PARIS, May 24. A clorresnondenlt states that foul leaders of 'the Alsatian autonomist party have been convicted of conspiracy against the state and ttfon-, “’ tenceil to a year’s imprisonment and / Jive years’ banishment from Alsace. They are Rec-klin Rosse (recently elected to the Chamber of Deputies at the General Election) and Scliall Able and Eighteen others were acquitted. Accused’s counsel pleaded for the abolition of wav, the psychology of which prevented a friendly, international understanding.